Chapter 66(1/2)
After listening to Fang Ze's question, Old Han thought about it for a moment.
"Back to Master Xia, there is a big account in Heifeng Village. All the property obtained in the village is recorded in the book. In order to show fairness, the leader Hu Xiaotian allows all the thirteen village owners to read this big account.
"I am in charge of this big account. Every three months the village has to pay tribute to the big shots above. According to the usual practice, it has always been 70%."
Old Han said.
"Seventy percent?" Yu Fenghan couldn't help shouting after hearing this.
"This Xiong Feinong is still peeling off the skin. This is simply breaking the bones and sucking out the marrow!"
"Heifeng Village has suffered a lot of infamy, but in the end, it still works for the people behind it. It's really not worth it."
Yu Fenghan couldn't help but sigh.
Fang Ze was not surprised.
He said: "This is not an exception among the underworld."
"There are many capable people in the underworld in Qingzhou. The Thirteen Eagles were able to occupy the key roads and establish the Black Wind Village. They have not yet been defeated by the martial arts family and the big sect because of the connections behind them."
"If it weren't for the domineering Bodhisattva Xiong Feinong, their Black Wind Village wouldn't be able to gain momentum."
"Furthermore, when the money reaches Xiong Feinong, it may not be where it ends up, and there is no way anyone else will share the profits."
Yu Fenghan felt enlightened after hearing this.
At the same time, I felt in my heart that my senior brother knew better.
Fang Ze suddenly laughed.
"Why are senior brothers laughing?" Yu Fenghan asked.
"What I'm laughing at is that Heifeng Village said that 70% of the profits were given to Xiong Feinong, but that may not be true," Fang Ze said.
"Why?" Yu Fenghan was confused.
Fang Ze picked up the account book in his hand, shook it, and said, "The account book I just found records the amount of goods that Heifeng Village gave to Xiong Feinong each time."
"I just looked at it, and I thought it was a little strange. Every time Heifeng Village provides supplies to Xiong Feinong, the goods are given in two tranches. I thought there was something to say."
"Now that I hear Old Han say that he wants to pay 70% of his wealth, I understand why."
"Oh, why?" Yu Fenghan was curious and asked cooperatively.
Fang Ze smiled and said:
"Haha... That's because Hu Xiaotian said he was going to give 70% to the Overbearing Bodhisattva Xiong Feinong, but in fact, Xiong Feinong only got 60%."
"10% of the proceeds were intercepted by Hu Xiaotian himself and put into his own pocket."
"The reason why each supply of goods is divided into two entries in this account book is because 60% of the goods were really given to Xiong Feinong, and the other 10% was kept privately even though it was recorded that they were given to Xiong Feinong.
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"The evidence is that every property is in this proportion."
"But maybe because of the situation in Heifeng Village, only Hu Xiaotian was able to contact Xiong Feinong, and the rest were kept in the dark."
Yu Fenghan's eyes widened slightly after hearing this.
"Can you still do this?"
"If it's true, huh... Hu Xiaotian, although he was hostile when he was alive, he looked like a character. But after he died, he knew how dirty he was, hey..."
"This person's image was not very high in my mind, and now it has plummeted...it's quite despising."
Not only Yu Fenghan was like this, but Old Hantou next to him realized what was going on after listening to Fang Ze's analysis. He also felt that Master Hu was only fair on the surface, but felt a little disdainful in his heart, so he echoed from the sidelines.
Fang Ze nodded slightly.
"Underworld figures, I don't expect them to have any bottom line," he said.
Yu Fenghan despised Hu Xiaotian, and suddenly thought of something again, and asked: "It's just that Hu Xiaotian has secretly hid 10% of the gains from the village for so many years. It doesn't seem like much, but it is equivalent to 30% of the profits left by the village.
One percent."
"The property in the secret room cannot be accounted for. Where did the money go?"
Fang Ze was already moved.
He looked at the account book in his hand.
The cover of the ledger is a hard cover, the inside may be a thin piece of wood or other materials, and the outside is covered with a layer of blue velvet cloth as a cover.
Fang Ze did some luck.
The true energy circulates on the skin. In an instant, Fang Ze's fingertips become much more sensitive, and he can distinguish some subtle differences.
Fang Ze gently touched the cover of the account book with his hand.
Soon, he smiled.
Fang Ze's fingers gently touched the side of the blue account book cover.
The next moment, the blue velvet cloth of the ledger fell off.
Several pages of paper actually slipped out from the cover of the account book and fell to the ground.
Fang Ze copied a few pages with his hands.
After taking a look, Fang Ze chuckled.
"Well, the eucalyptus is broken."
"This is actually a land deed and house deed for Jiangdong House."
"The profit that Hu Xiaotian has kept secretly for many years is almost the same as the value of the land deed."
"It seems that he has been prepared for a long time. He exchanged the land deed in Jiangdong and waited for Jinpen to wash his hands and go to Jiangdong to retire."
Fang Zedao.
Yu Fenghan's eyes widened and he looked in a daze.
After a while, he said: "Hu Xiaotian is so calculating..."
"If it weren't for your keenness, Senior Brother, I wouldn't have been able to discover it even to death. There is actually a Jiangdong land deed hidden in the cover of the ledger!"
"Senior brother, if you weren't here, I might have set this place on fire. I didn't even know that I had burned such a precious deed."
"Hu Xiaotian is actually a bit more thief than the formidable guy he looks like... Well, it looks like I'm still a little tender."
Seeing that Yu Fenghan was a little frustrated, Fang Ze comforted him and said, "You don't have to be so depressed. If you have experienced these things a lot, you will naturally pay attention to them."
Then Fang Ze changed the topic and asked: "But are you sure you don't want to share the wealth?"
"If you miss it, you won't have the chance."
Yu Fenghan looked serious and stated his position again: "Senior brother, you know me. I, Yu Fenghan, will do what I say..."
Before Yu Fenghan finished speaking, he saw Fang Ze's smiling and teasing expression, and then he realized what he was saying.
"Eldest brother, are you kidding me?"
"Brother, don't be like this!"
"You are teasing me like this, and I still answer seriously, which makes me look stupid..."
Seeing that Yu Fenghan was a little angry, Fang Ze finally couldn't help but laugh.
At this moment, he seemed to have returned to the time when he was practicing martial arts in the sect when he was a child, teasing Yu Fenghan who was always pulling his brother's face.
It was so good at that time...
Fang Ze felt much more relaxed.
…
Fang Ze and Yu Fenghan checked the Black Wind Village again.
The minions in Black Wind Village are dead.
From the village, Lao Han found some women who had been kidnapped by the people in Heifeng Village and went up the mountain, including Lao Han's own granddaughter.
There were seventeen or eighteen of these women in total, most of them were pretty, but they all looked quite miserable after being tortured.
Previously, these women had gathered in a cave in the village, which was where thugs usually had fun.
When they learned that Fang Ze and Yu Fenghan had wiped out the Black Wind Village and rescued them, some women cried with joy, while other women, although they also thanked them, looked numb.
Yu Fenghan couldn't bear to see this, so he left temporarily on the pretext of looking for kerosene to burn down Heifeng Village.
Fang Ze sighed slightly in his heart.
Common people's women are not like the children of the Jianghu, and they still have many restrictions.
Many women are not numb due to being devastated, but they cannot see the future.
He asked Lao Han to take out some cash stored in the warehouse in the village, and distributed more than twenty taels of silver to each woman.
It's not that there isn't more money in the warehouse, it's just that Fang Ze knows that giving these women twenty taels of silver is helping them, but no matter how much he gives, it might actually harm them.
Doing good deeds must be intentional and measured, otherwise it would be better not to do it.
To be continued...